{"id":2293,"date":"2004-03-03T10:28:44","date_gmt":"2004-03-04T02:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/03\/omoshiroi-kedo-kankei-ga-nai\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:40:00","slug":"omoshiroi-kedo-kankei-ga-nai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/03\/omoshiroi-kedo-kankei-ga-nai\/","title":{"rendered":"Omoshiroi kedo, kankei ga nai"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11619,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/weblog.delacour.net\\\/archives\\\/2004\\\/02\\\/kankei_relationship_or_connection.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Two Japanese phrases I need to remember (and possibly eventually learn to pronounce&#8230;):<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Omoshiroi kedo, kankei ga nai.<\/dt>\n<dd>Interesting, but nothing to do with me.<\/dd>\n<dt>Missetsuna kankei ga aru.<\/dt>\n<dd>I&#8217;m intimately related to this.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>Both found in the midst of <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.delacour.net\/archives\/2004\/02\/kankei_relationship_or_connection.php\" title=\"relationship or connection\">Jonathon Delacour&#8217;s return to weblogging<\/a>, wherein he explores some of the dissatisfaction that has been creeping through many weblogs of late, and reminds us that there&#8217;s more to all this than just the echo chamber.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8230;the spirit of this thing we were all so in love with&#8212;which for me, in its best moments, has always been a celebration of the beauty and sadness of everyday life&#8212;is indestructible (as long as the dabs of grit keep seeping into the oyster shells).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Japanese phrases I need to remember (and possibly eventually learn to pronounce&#8230;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13,599],"class_list":["post-2293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life","tag-weblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}